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Show Why He Liked That Club. Bret Harte, though he was the historian his-torian of the "Argonauts of 1849," had no real love of yachting. Yet his favorite fav-orite resort during the last years of his life w.as the Royal Thames Tacht club. He was once questioned about It, and explained : "I never use a club until I am tired of my work, and want relief from it. If I go to a literary club I am asked all sorts of questions as to what I am doing, and my views on somebody else' last book, and to these I am tx-pected tx-pected to reply at length. "Now, my good friends in Albemarle Albe-marle street talk of their yachts, don't want my advice about them, are good enough to let me listen, and I come gway refreshed by their conversation." |